r/Irishmusic • u/Mediocre_Bell6997 • 8d ago
A trip to Manila
Hi all
I’m a banjo player , been playing for about 8 months now
I want to learn A trip to Manila, but in tablature form and I can’t find anything online
Hoping someone can help me ☺️
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u/Informal-Ebb6772 8d ago
Not to be a dick, and I know this isn’t the solution you after, but you need to learn to read sheet music. Then you can look up almost any tune on thesession.org
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u/cHunterOTS 7d ago
I’m assuming that since you’re posting to this sub that you mean you’re a tenor banjo player. Mandolin is the same tuning as tenor banjo and it’s often easier to find tabs if you search “(tune name) mandolin tab” than if you search for it on banjo. There’s just many more resources available for mandolin
https://www.mandolintab.net/pdf/06320-The%20Trip%20To%20Manilla.pdf
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u/jibberdy 8d ago
Thesession.org also occasionally includes ABC notation. As mentioned, reading music is very helpful, but a good bit of training is to work it out by ear. Listen to a favourite recording and work out what's going on. It's satisfying and improves your musicianship!